Arise and shine

August 14, 2017March 1, 2025

The justice of God

Justice is an interesting subject and I believe key to understanding God’s view and purpose for the earth and everything in it.

The notion of justice as we understand it on earth entails dispensation of punishment relating to a crime or sin. With God things are similar in the Old Testament but change substantially with the arrival of Jesus Christ. Jesus is all about getting what someone infinitely better that me deserves. I don’t get what I deserve, I get what Christ deserves (we were made co-heirs in Christ).

July 14, 2017April 14, 2023

Preparing for blessing

The bible makes many analogies between blessing and agriculture, these include watering where rain is a symbol of blessing or growing, where blessing is increased through diligence and care.

The Word also mentions preparing the ground and this is probably the most important step in receiving and maintaining a blessing. If we compare what a sower does the picture is clear. The ground is weeded, fertilised and enriched, tilled and sometimes trenched to retain water, before it receives the grain. If the ground is not properly prepared then we get what happened in the parable of the sower where the ground is either dry or full of weeds or has no depth of soil to receive the seed. Rain runs straight through unprepared ground.

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May 29, 2017April 14, 2023

Digesting the word

I have often been listening to someone speak, or preach or just had a conversation and thought “hang on, there’s something not quite right here”. The person has said something, maybe benign enough, but it has disturbed my spirit. It’s as though the Holy Spirit in me says “don’t make agreement with or ingest that bit”. It’s not necessarily that the whole conversation or speech is bad, or even that the bit I need to reject is no good, it’s just that I don’t need to encumber my “digestive system” with it right now.

May 27, 2017February 26, 2025

What is this fear deal about?

When you are in fear, you are never in the present, so you cannot breath and fully receive what God has for you in the present, the now. Your mind is in the future and you are hooked in to your past experiences. Because you are not in the present you cannot actually live with the God who is I AM. And because you are afraid you try to control, it’s called torment.
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April 11, 2017April 1, 2024

Supporting couples

When someone tries to protect a woman or a man within a couple (outside of abuse of course) and supports one but not the other, they are in effect placing the person they are protecting under a pseudo parental authority. They are withdrawing them from the authority of their own home and going against the word that state “a man will leave his mother and father and be joined to his wife”.

April 11, 2017July 7, 2019

How authority flows

Authority is a big topic, it is hard to resume in a few simple paragraphs the profound effects of understanding and applying authority correctly. The importance of understanding kingdom authority cannot be overestimate. So here goes… Continue reading “How authority flows”

April 11, 2017April 14, 2023

Living on crutches

Crutches in the natural are things we use when we are injured or lacking strength, usually while waiting for some part of our anatomy to heal.

Spiritually we use crutches to support ourselves in areas that are weak and that have not yet been given over to God for healing.

April 11, 2017April 14, 2023

Milk and meat

What is the difference between the milk and the meat of the word of God?

I have often heard that the milk is the easy stuff and the meat is the really complex theological stuff, but this never made sense to me in so far as we are told that even a child can enter the kingdom. So does that in effect mean that a child cannot enter the depth of the kingdom until he has intellectual acumen?
If we take the natural elements of milk and meat and how they are obtained and administered the picture is clear:

April 11, 2017April 14, 2023

Peace on all your borders

When I think of solomon, the first thing that comes to mind is of course wisdom. Solomon was the wisest man that ever lived or ever will live according to the Old Testament. He was able to advance the kingdom of Israel in the areas of science, art, beauty, society, engineering, diplomacy and probably a whole host of other areas that are not cited in biblical accounts.

Yet there is an element of the reign of Solomon that I had overlooked: Israel had peace on all it’s borders during the reign of Solomon (1Kings ch. 4). One of the greatest blessings we can have is having “peace on all our borders”.

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